Extended Strong's Hebrew Lexicon (Brown-Driver-Briggs based)
hungry
Usage: 1) hungry 1a) hungry 1b) hungry man (subst) 1c) of failing strength (fig)
Raeb means “hungry” — full meaning, definition, and every linked Bible usage across the indexed canon.
Strong's H7457 רָעֵב (ra`eb) is a Hebrew Strong's word-study entry. ra`eb (raw-abe') adj. 1. hungry (more or less intensely) [from H7456] It has 20 linked Bible usages across 8 books. Visible English usage signals include hungry. Indexed coverage on this page includes Old Testament.
ra`eb (raw-abe') adj. 1. hungry (more or less intensely) [from H7456] KJV: hunger bitten, hungry. Root(s): H7456
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hungry
Usage: 1) hungry 1a) hungry 1b) hungry man (subst) 1c) of failing strength (fig)
The English word each shown verse actually uses to render ra`eb, taken from the interlinear word alignment (the same word underlined in the excerpts below). Where a rendering is used more than once, the count is shown.
Indexed coverage includes Old Testament. Each section below keeps corpus counts and sample passages visible so readers can compare the word across contexts instead of reading one flat concordance list.
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20 indexed usages in Old Testament.
They that were full have hired out themselves for bread; and they that were hungry ceased: so that the barren hath born seven; and she that hath many children is waxed feeble.
And honey, and butter, and sheep, and cheese of kine, for David, and for the people that were with him, to eat: for they said, The people is hungry, and weary, and thirsty, in the wilderness.
And the king arose in the night, and said unto his servants, I will now shew you what the Syrians have done to us. They know that we be hungry; therefore are they gone out of the camp to hide themselves in the field, saying, When they come out of the city, we shall catch them alive, and get into the city.
First 20 linked usage excerpts for Strong's H7457.
They that were full have hired out themselves for bread; and they that were hungry ceased: so that the barren hath born seven; and she that hath many children is waxed feeble.
And honey, and butter, and sheep, and cheese of kine, for David, and for the people that were with him, to eat: for they said, The people is hungry, and weary, and thirsty, in the wilderness.
And the king arose in the night, and said unto his servants, I will now shew you what the Syrians have done to us. They know that we be hungry; therefore are they gone out of the camp to hide themselves in the field, saying, When they come out of the city, we shall catch them alive, and get into the city.
Whose harvest the hungry eateth up, and taketh it even out of the thorns, and the robber swalloweth up their substance.
His strength shall be hungerbitten, and destruction shall be ready at his side.
Thou hast not given water to the weary to drink, and thou hast withholden bread from the hungry.
They cause him to go naked without clothing, and they take away the sheaf from the hungry;
Hungry and thirsty, their soul fainted in them.
For he satisfieth the longing soul, and filleth the hungry soul with goodness.
And there he maketh the hungry to dwell, that they may prepare a city for habitation;
Which executeth judgment for the oppressed: which giveth food to the hungry. The LORD looseth the prisoners:
If thine enemy be hungry, give him bread to eat; and if he be thirsty, give him water to drink:
The full soul loatheth an honeycomb; but to the hungry soul every bitter thing is sweet.
And they shall pass through it, hardly bestead and hungry: and it shall come to pass, that when they shall be hungry, they shall fret themselves, and curse their king and their God, and look upward.
It shall even be as when an hungry man dreameth, and, behold, he eateth; but he awaketh, and his soul is empty: or as when a thirsty man dreameth, and, behold, he drinketh; but he awaketh, and, behold, he is faint, and his soul hath appetite: so shall the multitude of all the nations be, that fight against mount Zion.
For the vile person will speak villany, and his heart will work iniquity, to practise hypocrisy, and to utter error against the LORD, to make empty the soul of the hungry, and he will cause the drink of the thirsty to fail.
Is it not to deal thy bread to the hungry, and that thou bring the poor that are cast out to thy house? when thou seest the naked, that thou cover him; and that thou hide not thyself from thine own flesh?
And if thou draw out thy soul to the hungry, and satisfy the afflicted soul; then shall thy light rise in obscurity, and thy darkness be as the noon day:
And hath not oppressed any, but hath restored to the debtor his pledge, hath spoiled none by violence, hath given his bread to the hungry, and hath covered the naked with a garment;
Neither hath oppressed any, hath not withholden the pledge, neither hath spoiled by violence, but hath given his bread to the hungry, and hath covered the naked with a garment,
Every indexed verse link for Strong's H7457, grouped by book.
Raeb (Strong's H7457) is a Hebrew word most simply glossed "hungry". ra`eb (raw-abe') adj. 1. hungry (more or less intensely) [from H7456]
This page currently indexes 20 linked usages for Strong's H7457 across 8 books.
Use the linked verse references on this page to study Strong's H7457 in context. The indexed coverage includes Old Testament.
The visible usage excerpts most often surface English words such as hungry. These are scanning signals from the displayed verses, not replacements for the original-language definition.